Rhodea

This article is about the snail. For the daughter of Oceanus, see List of Oceanids.

Rhodea is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.^[4][3][5]

Rhodea
Rhodea maxima shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Subfamily:	Stenogyrinae
Genus:	Rhodea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[1]
Diversity[2][3]
9 species

Authors of the genus provided no information about the etymology of this genus and its etymology remains unknown.^[6]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Rhodea include Colombia^[3] and Ecuador.^[5][6]

Species

Species within the genus Rhodea include:

• Rhodea aequatoria Da Costa, 1899^[3]
• Rhodea barcrofti Pilsbry, 1958^[6][3]
• Rhodea californica (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)^[3]
• Rhodea cousini Jousseaume, 1900^[5][3]
• Rhodea crosseana Da Costa, 1899^[3]
• Rhodea gigantea Mousson, 1873^[2][3]
• Rhodea mariaalejandrae Grego, Šteffek & Infante, 2007^[3]
• Rhodea moussoni Grego, Šteffek & Infante, 2007^[3]
• Rhodea wallisiana Dohrn, 1875^[6][3]

See also

A plant genus Rohdea is sometimes misspelled as Rhodea.